Neural Decoding of Temporal Features of Zebra Finch Song
Amirmasoud Ahmadi, Hermina Robotka, Frederic Theunissen, Manfred Gahr · Bernstein Conference 2024
Auditory decoding of temporal features is a complex process in which vocalizations such as birdsongs are segmented into distinct auditory units, a crucial step in transforming sound into meaning. The songbird auditory system offers a valuable model for studying the neural representation of complex sounds. The hierarchical structure of the Zebra Finches' song makes it ideal for in-depth analysis of auditory decoding. We use stacked Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) deep neural networks to decode the amplitude envelope and the time-locked envelope features of zebra finch songs. To a